Latest news on Applications in Plant Sciences and American Journal of Botany

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APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: “Resilient Botany: Innovation in the Face of Limited Mobility and Resources” Proposal Submission Deadline: September 16, 2022

We are pleased to announce a call for papers

for a special issue of APPS, “Resilient botany: Innovation in the face of limited mobility and resources.” This special issue aims to showcase a collection of articles describing how botanists have creatively leveraged resources at hand to continue their research in the face of restricted mobility, limited funding, and disrupted supply chains. Our intent is for the issue to span diverse topics and scales across botanical research; we welcome novel laboratory, field, herbarium techniques, new software, and mini-reviews.

More information is available here: https:// cms.botany.org/home/publications/apps/ apps-call-for-papers-advances-in-plantimaging-across-scales.html, or contact apps@ botany.org with questions. APPS Special Issue Call for Papers: “Advances in Plant

Imaging across Scales” Proposal Submission Deadline: August 5, 2022

Proposals are now being accepted for a special issue of APPS “Advances in Plant Imaging across Scales.” The goal of this special issue is to explore how new imaging

technologies are enabling novel research into plant form and function, genomics, ecology, and evolution. The issue will highlight novel imaging and image processing techniques targeted to plants at any scale of organization. We encourage the submission of new tools, techniques, protocols, software/pipelines, and reviews of imaging techniques or image processing.

More information is available here: https:// botany.org/home/publications/apps/appscall-for-papers-advances-in-plant-imagingacross-scales.html, or contact apps@botany. org with questions.

New and Upcoming APPS Special Issues

The March–April issue of APPS explores “Methodologies in Gametophyte Biology.” Guest editors Sally Chambers, Jerald Pinson, and Susann Wicke have curated a diverse group of papers that provide a valuable resource for understanding this minute, sometimes cryptic, and often overlooked part of the plant life cycle. Despite their obscurity, gametophytes are vital to our understanding of biodiversity and to the successful implementation of conservation strategies. See the full issue here: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ toc/21680450/2022/10/2.

Be on the lookout for two more APPS special issues publishing later this year: “Advances, Applications, and Prospects in Aquatic Botany” and “Meeting the Challenge of Exceptional Plant Conservation: Technologies and Approaches.”

APPS Virtual Issue: Methods for Plant Leaf Measurements

The editors at APPS have curated a collection of articles showcasing the diverse methods to measure and analyze living and preserved leaves published in the journal. The featured papers include well-known and established methods, like Easy Leaf Area, and new approaches leveraging machine learning and 3D reconstruction of cellular layers. View the issue here: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2168-0450. leafmethods.

AJB/APPSVirtual Issue: Exploring Angiosperms353 Collection

This virtual issue brings together papers from the American Journal of Botany and Applications in Plant Sciences that focus on studies using the Angiosperms353 toolkit for target sequence capture in flowering plants. The heart of the collection is two special issues, each titled “Exploring Angiosperms353: a Universal Toolkit for Flowering Plant Phylogenomics.” Additional articles published in the two journals that relate to this topic are being added on a continual basis. The universal nature of Angiosperms353 is creating new opportunities for systematists and evolutionary biologists. This collection of articles shares the many ways in which the toolkit is already being used, celebrates new discoveries, and improves our understanding of its properties and limitations. View the issue here: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1537-2197. angiosperms353.